ESP32 NTP Client-Server: Get Date and Time (Arduino IDE)
Learn how to request date and time from an NTP Server using the ESP32 with Arduino IDE. Getting date and time is useful in data logging projects to timestamp readings. To get time from an NTP Server, the ESP32 needs to have an Internet connection and you don’t need additional hardware (like an RTC clock).
NTP stands for Network Time Protocol and it is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems. In other words, it is used to synchronize computer clock times in a network.
There are NTP servers like pool.ntp.org that anyone can use to request time as a client. In this case, the ESP32 is an NTP Client that requests time from an NTP Server (pool.ntp.org).
To get date and time with the ESP32, you don’t need to install any libraries. You simply need to include the time.h library in your code.
The following code gets date and time from the NTP Server and prints the results on the Serial Monitor. It was based on the example provided by the time.h library.
